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1. Wherefore all who fully wish, and with God's help are able, are so to be exhorted to the contemplative life, that they may remember the perfection of that divine contemplation itself is reserved for them in that blessed life which is to come; so that there they may perfectly see God as he is, where they themselves also will be perfected by the attainment of eternal life and the heavenly kingdom. But if human frailty could here perfectly contemplate the substance of God, never would the holy Evangelist have said: No man hath seen God at any time. He did not say, No man shall see. Finally, in order to show evidently that the vision of God has not been denied to holy men but deferred, what he denied in the present time he promised in the future, saying:
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Nor did he here say, For they do see God. Therefore if God, who in this life without the assumption of some element could not be seen, nor can be, is to be seen in the future life: there is the perfection of divine contemplation to be hoped for, where there will be the fullness of all good things.